Tücke

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German tücke f, also tuc m (“conduct, procedure, move, trick”). Further origin unknown, perhaps expressive.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʏkə/
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  • Rhymes: -ʏkə

Noun

Tücke f (genitive Tücke, plural Tücken)

  1. (uncountable) malice, spite, deceit, guile, trickery
    mit List und Tücke ― with guile and malice
    • 1799, Friedrich Schiller, Wallensteins Tod (Wallenstein trilogy)‎, 3. Aufzug, 10. Auftritt; republished as S. T. Coleridge, transl., The Death of Wallenstein, 1800:
      Das Schicksal liebt mich noch, denn eben jetzt, / Da es des Heuchlers Tücke mir entlarvt, / Hat es ein treues Herz mir zugesendet.
      Still loved by destiny; for in the moment / That it unmasks the plotting hypocrite / It sends and proves to me one faithful heart.
  2. (countable, often in the plural) pitfall, danger
    die Tücken des Alltags ― the pitfalls of everyday life
    • 1998 June 25, Markus Franken, “Gründerzeit in Berlin”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, →ISSN, page 21:
      Selbst dann, wenn das Problem nicht von der snafu-Software herrührt, sondern von alten Programmen auf dem heimischen Rechner, einem Wechsel des Betriebssystems oder den Tücken der „Datenfernübertragung“ unter Windows.
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Declension

Declension of Tücke
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Tücke die Tücken
genitive einer der Tücke der Tücken
dative einer der Tücke den Tücken
accusative eine die Tücke die Tücken

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